Tuesday, 17 August 2010

Festival di Sanremo - Laura Pausini

Laura Pausini is an Italian singer who is very popular in the Italian- and Spanish speaking parts of the world and in some European countries like the Netherlands and Belgium. She sings in Italian, Spanish, Portugese and English.

In the 90's Laura was very popular in the Netherlands. After Italy the Netherlands was the first county where Laura became successful. After her first album in 1987 she was discovered by producer Angelo Valsiglio. He asked her to participate at the Festival di Sanremo in 1993 with the song La Solitudine which came first in the Categoria Nuove Proposte. In 1994 she participated again at the Festival di Sanremo with Strani Amori which came 3rd in the Categoria Campioni.

Laura is still recording and performing and sold over 30 million albums worldwide.